Example sentences of "has [vb pp] we [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their views are readily recognizable in a world where the fuss about the Turin Shroud has reminded us of a time when high hopes and claims of miracle were commonly attached to pieces of the true cross or heads of John the Baptist , where much Christian literature promises believers great success in life if only they have enough faith in God , and where men and women of political power still try to have God and his Church on their side , and to use their authority to enhance their own . |
| 2 | They have whetted a lust for sensationalism that has turned us into a nation of accident watchers . |
| 3 | The Operations Officer has briefed us on a shot fired from one of the Turkish observation towers . |
| 4 | J. Howard , Secretary of Areley Kings Machine Knitting Club , has contacted us with a change of details . |
| 5 | In that event , the Antarctic ice sheet has provided us with a sample of a planetary body we have never seen , but which has a Moon-like anorthositic crust and a Moon-like soil layer . |
| 6 | Wolfgang Iser ( 1974 , p.288 ) has provided us with a picture of the competent reader 's behaviour , for — as he says — when we read ‘ we look forward , we look back , we decide , we change our decisions , we form expectations , we are shocked by their nonfulfilment , we question , we muse , we accept , we reject ’ . |
| 7 | Towards the end of his first letter to the Corinthians , Paul challenges the Corinthian Christians on the quality of their love , and in doing so has provided us with a bench-mark of quality as far as the practice of love is concerned . |
| 8 | Steady progress over the last four decades has brought us to a point where much of what happens in primary education is a source of pride . |
| 9 | Addressing a rally on March 9 organized by the Democratic Russia group , Yeltsin called on his fellow radicals to " declare war on the leadership of the country , which has led us into a quagmire " . |
| 10 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |